November 29, 2018

Today the Blender Foundation releases the first 2.80-beta version. No other release of Blender has been met with so much anticipation! It's the accumulation of 3 years of time and hundreds of months of work by developers from the Blender community. A couple of useful links:

About This Software

Blender is a free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation. Advanced users employ Blender’s API for Python scripting to customize the application and write specialized tools; often these are included in Blender’s future releases. Blender is well suited to individuals and small studios who benefit from its unified pipeline and responsive development process. Examples from many Blender-based projects are available in the showcase.

Blender is cross-platform and runs equally well on Linux, Windows and Macintosh computers. Its interface uses OpenGL to provide a consistent experience. To confirm specific compatibility, the list of supported platforms indicates those regularly tested by the development team.

As a community-driven project under the GNU General Public License (GPL), the public is empowered to make small and large changes to the code base, which leads to new features, responsive bug fixes, and better usability. Blender has no price tag, but you can invest, participate, and help to advance a powerful collaborative tool: Blender is your own 3D software.

System Requirements

Windows

Mac OS X

SteamOS + Linux

Minimum:

OS: Windows XP

Processor: Pentium 3

Memory: 256 MB RAM

Graphics: Geforce FX series (2003)

Storage: 300 MB available space

Recommended:

OS: Windows 7 SP1

Processor: Intel CoreI7

Memory: 8 GB RAM

Graphics: Geforce 580

Storage: 1 GB available space

Minimum:

OS: OS X 10.7

Processor: Core2 Duo

Memory: 512 MB RAM

Recommended:

OS: OS X 10.10

Processor: Core I7

Memory: 8 GB RAM

Minimum:

OS: Ubuntu 12.04

Processor: 64 bit processor

Memory: 512 MB RAM

Graphics: Geforce FX series (2003)

Storage: 300 MB available space

Additional Notes: glibc 2.11

Recommended:

Processor: Intel CoreI7

Memory: 8 GB RAM

Storage: 1 GB available space

Blender is free/open source software, available under the GNU GPL 3.0 license.